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  • Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies

    An Introduction

    de Ibo van de Poel ...
    Technologies shape who we are, how we organize our societies and how we relate to nature. For example, social media challenges democracy; artificial intelligence raises the question of what is unique to humans; and the possibility to create artificial wombs may affect notions of motherhood and birth. Some have suggested that we address global warming by engineering the climate, but how does this ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Ethics and Engineering

    An Introduction

    de Behnam Taebi ...
    Series series Cambridge Applied Ethics
    The world population is growing, yet we continue to pursue higher levels of well-being, and as a result, increasing energy demands and the destructive effects of climate change are just two of many major threats that we face. Engineers play an indispensable role in addressing these challenges, and whether they recognize it or not, in doing so they will inevitably encounter a whole range of ethical ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Ethics of Nuclear Energy

    Risk, Justice, and Democracy in the Post-Fukushima Era

    Edición de Behnam Taebi, Sabine Roeser ...
    Despite the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, a growing number of countries are interested in expanding or introducing nuclear energy. However, nuclear energy production and nuclear waste disposal give rise to pressing ethical questions that society needs to face. This book takes up this challenge with essays by an international team of scholars focusing on the key issues ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

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  • Limits and Beyond

    50 years on from The Limits to Growth, what did we learn and what’s next?

    de Ugo Bardi, Carlos Alvarez Pereira ...
    In 1972, a book changed the world.The Club of Rome commissioned a report that shifted how we see what humans are doing to the planet. Looking back five decades later, what happened next, what did we do and not do, what did we learn, and what happens now?In The Limits to Growth, a team from MIT studied the way humans were using the resources of the earth. Using sophisticated computer modelling, the ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Transhumanist Reader

    Classical and Contemporary Essays on the Science, Technology, and Philosophy of the Human Future

    Edición de Max More, Natasha Vita-More ...
    The first authoritative and comprehensive survey of the origins and current state of transhumanist thinkingThe rapid pace of emerging technologies is playing an increasingly important role in overcoming fundamental human limitations. Featuring core writings by seminal thinkers in the speculative possibilities of the posthuman condition, essays address key philosophical arguments for and against ... Leer más

    $42.00 USD

  • Climate Uncertainty and Risk

    Rethinking Our Response

    de Judith Curry ...
    Series series Anthem Environment and Sustainability Initiative
    World leaders have made a forceful statement that climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity in the 21st century. However, little progress has been made in implementing policies to address climate change. In Climate Uncertainty and Risk, eminent climate scientist Judith Curry shows how we can break this gridlock. This book helps us rethink the climate change problem, the risks we are ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Techno-Human Condition

    de Braden R. Allenby, Daniel Sarewitz ...
    A provocative analysis of what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity and change.In The Techno-Human Condition, Braden Allenby and Daniel Sarewitz explore what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity and change. They argue that if we are to have any prospect of managing that complexity, we will need to escape the shackles of ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The Automation of Society is Next: How to Survive the Digital Revolution

    de Dirk Helbing ...
    The explosion in data volumes, processing power, and Artificial Intelligence, known as the "digital revolution", has driven our world to a dangerous point. One thing is increasingly clear: We are at a crossroads. We need to make decisions. We must re-invent our future.[This book includes 32 color illustrations.]After the automation of factories and the creation of self-driving cars, the automation ... Leer más

    $11.11 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Speciesism: Why It Is Wrong and the Implications of Rejecting It

    de Magnus Vinding ...
    What can justify discrimination against other sentient beings?In this book, Magnus Vinding explores the issue of species discrimination. He argues that speciesism — discrimination based on species membership — is unjustifiable, and proceeds to examine the practical implications of this conclusion. This examination reveals more than a few ways in which our behavior and attitudes need to change ... Leer más

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  • Aid on the Edge of Chaos

    Rethinking International Cooperation in a Complex World

    de Ben Ramalingam ...
    It is widely recognised that the foreign aid system - which today involves every country in the world - is in need of drastic change. But there are conflicting opinions as to what is needed. Some call for dramatic increases in resources, to meet long-overdue commitments, and to scale up what is already being done around the world. Others point to the flaws in aid, and bang the drum for cutting it ... Leer más

    $21.89 USD

  • Effective Altruism: How Can We Best Help Others?

    de Magnus Vinding ...
    This book is part introduction to, part reflective examination of, the idea and ideal of effective altruism. Its aim is to examine the core question of effective altruism: How can we best help others? This question in turn forces us to contemplate what helping others ultimately entails. Here the book argues that the greatest help we can provide is to reduce extreme suffering for all sentient ... Leer más

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  • Complexity and the Art of Public Policy

    Solving Society's Problems from the Bottom Up

    de David Colander, Roland Kupers ...
    How ideas in complexity can be used to develop more effective public policyComplexity science—made possible by modern analytical and computational advances—is changing the way we think about social systems and social theory. Unfortunately, economists' policy models have not kept up and are stuck in either a market fundamentalist or government control narrative. While these standard narratives are ... Leer más

    $20.19 USD